EUROPE - AFRICA; Neo-Imperialism

by: Pieter and Helene Bos
date: 3/12/2003
Category: Nations

Neo-Imperialism; new forms of imperialism attacking Africa.

Part 3 of the Report on the Reconciliation Conference Africa – Europe, Ambilly, France 29-31 October 2000
See also Berlin-Congo Conference; a historic overview

The First World cannot repent before God and Africa of her historical imperialism, if it does not also and in reality "turn from its wicked ways."

Introduction: Old and modern forms of Imperialism, victimizing Africa.
Imperialism can be described as international force exerting their power over other nations ignoring or suppressing opposition. This has happened over the centuries by Europe to Africa. The Reconciliation Conference Africa – Europe tries to start a process of undoing the consequences. However, the western world must recognize that the imperialistic attitude and action has not at all subsided. And confession without turning from the wicked way is no repentance!

Two explicit forms of neo-imperialism:

1. Failure to appreciate the Corporate Identity of Africa
We believe that each nation and race and continent has a "Corporate Identity," a way in which that continent or race or nation reflects the image of God in which she was created. And we sense that the Corporate Identity of Africa is "Spiritual Authority."
Negative expression:
- The continent-wide practice of ancestor worship is a worship of fathers and fatherhood which completely obscures the bible-based spiritual nature of authority.
- The traditional influence of the African father/parent on his children’s lives is still quite stifling, if not oppressive.
- The ubiquitous African practice of witchcraft is a corruption of submission to spiritual authority.
- Traditionally many chiefs and kings in Africa have been tyrannical and occult-empowered, obscuring true Spiritual Authority.
- Europe (the "brainy" continent, exporting rationalism) simply looked down on this witchcraft-ridden sister continent and through colonization and slave trade cruelly hurt the continent in the core of her Spiritual Authority.
- In Africa promiscuity has become very widespread, through perversion of male "authority".
- The first evangelization of Africa was very European and mind-dominated and could not discern the spiritual forces it opposed, in this way blocking true African acceptance of the gospel.
Positive expression:

Recently the continent of Africa has surprised the world by bringing forth men and women of impressive spiritual stature, both as spiritual and political leaders: the "Black Prophets," men and women of "Spiritual Authority," Africa redeemed! The world needs them.

2. Language Imperialism
An obvious form of neo-imperialism is Language Imperialism: the language of the "stronger" foreign nation gradually taking the place of the national language(s). Those nationals who do not speak it, gradually become second rate citizens. Even in the case of the foreign language being received as a "binding element" in a multi-cultural nation, even if (often young) nationals pride themselves to be able to speak the foreign language, it is still language imperialism. It is either-or: either the foreigner humbles himself to the host culture, or he forces his host to the toddler stage and makes a little England/America/Russia around himself, where he is the Eloquent Leader.

Four subtler but equally aggressive forms of neo-imperialism are the following:

3. Human rights imperialism

International versus national family and educational values; destabilization of government policies.
International humanitarian and development aid is given only to nations who comply with human rights. This sounds reasonable. However, without consensus, let alone ratified agreement, the international agencies are at present identifying "human rights" with "women’s rights".
Many discussions in UN-conferences focus on the concept of "reproductive rights". This concept seemingly means the right to safe delivery of babies, but in UN-conference language the concept in actual practice includes:
- sex education for primary school children promoting sex outside the marriage context, with both heterosexual and homosexual persons, notwithstanding cultural values and without parental consent, even without parental knowledge of the content of the lessons.
- abortion on demand, for girls of all ages and without parental consent.
- parents and/or governments are not allowed to intervene in observing "women’s rights."
These aspects of women’s rights are nothing less than an aggressive feminist agenda. Observing these "rights" has been made the condition for humanitarian and development aid. In many cases ninety per cent of the money made available as humanitarian and development aid, is designated for "health and education," meaning "reproductive health and sex education." In this way, many stated requests and obvious needs for basic health care, vocational training and community development, including family strengthening, are ignored.

In October 1996 a conference was held, initiated by the UNFPA, of which an observer concludes, "On the African Continent, that female Ministers and Parliamentarians are used as instruments to push legalization of abortion in their country and to destroy their governments" by promoting "Civil Society" as the necessary political back-up for the promotion of women’s rights. However, Civil Society is an invention of the UN, and is meant to be not a democratically chosen body, but a forum of interests in line with UN values.
This is nothing but a new form of colonialism.

4. Aggressive UN Sustainability Strategy
Sustainability as overriding principle; the lies behind over-population; abortion of genocide proportions.
From the first presentation of the term "sustainability," at the Earth Summit in Rio ‘92, till the UN-WSSD (UN World Summit on Sustainable Development), in Johannesburg 2002, the term has been mentioned so persistently and in so many contexts, that it has become almost un-questionable. Who would not support any effort to prevent the earth being depleted of resources, becoming polluted and uninhabitable for future generations?
However, the concept "sustainability" includes these three aspects:
- controlled economy,
- restricted access to resources, and
- suppressed or zero population growth.
Each of these three aspects is defined from the perspective of the survival of the earth, of Mother Earth!
For the substantiation of these three criteria, statistics are used that cannot be trusted. Statistics regarding population growth, diversity of species, the hole in the ozone layer, acidity of rain, etc, that are used by UN agencies are again and again criticized by internationally recognized bodies of scientists (very strongly in the case of the Kyoto protocol), and often even by the UN Statistics Department. Nevertheless the UN uses these statistics to stress the so-called danger of overpopulation, of depletion of resources, of extinction of species, and keeps warning the world that "sustainable development" requires very strict measures in all areas of life. It is surprising that the population growth in third world countries is monitored much more strictly and that these countries are put under much more pressure of sustainability than first world countries, which produce so much more pollution.

Also: Health is no longer defined in terms of personal health, but in terms of the survival of the earth. Earth in this context is understood, religiously (!), as a macro-eco-system, in which the human species is on a par with other species. Because of the pollution caused by the human species, this species must decrease drastically in numbers. The present world population is estimated at just over 6 billion. As the maximum that the planet can bear indefinitely, the number of 1 billion humans has been mentioned, but lately the figure of 300 million has been introduced.

All this is the background for an aggressive population control policy, including abortion as a stated means of population control. Per year, more than 50 million are being performed! Yet the UN want to increase that number! The simultaneous advocacy of free sex and the provision of condoms, while ridiculing pleas for abstinence/faithfulness, targeted skilfully at Islamic and African nations (which have comparatively higher birth rates) are in fact factors that cause AIDS and STD’s to increase. This last was flippantly recognized as "helping UN development policy in Africa" (an UNFPA spokesman at the occasion of the birth of the 6 billionth person, in Brussels, October 1999).
This is nothing but a new form of colonialism.

5. Natural Resources Policies

First world policy to disown the natural resources; the organization of famine.
Many African nations have huge debts, and the resolution on debt release has not led to substantial results. One response to requests for new loans is the requirement of the IMF and the World bank of making the natural resources, which are the rich heritage of many African nations, a security for such a loan. If this happens, first world banks will soon effortlessly become the owners of these natural resources, impoverishing third world countries even more. The suggestion that these natural resources are "global property" anyway, makes this scheme even more treacherous.
Most first world nations are so badly in need of resources, and most first world companies are in such a hurry to exploit them, that the exploitation does not lead to comprehensive education of the local population, and the money earned disappears into the few pockets that are already active in the economic circuit.

Another evil attack on the African continent is the importation of genetically manipulated seed. This seed gives one great crop, but cannot be used as sowing seed. This forces African farmers to again buy seed in the first world, especially the USA. It is even worse: the seed in not only sterile, but causes the plants in the environment to become infertile also through cross pollinisation: the soil, even the whole ecosystem is being destroyed. Lately official refusal of American gifts of sowing seed for hungry Zambia and Zimbabwe was reported for this very reason. In a number of cases, first world seed companies have bought out local seed companies, so that the income of first world seed companies has been guaranteed, at the expense of local farmers. This is nothing but the organizing of famine.
This is nothing but a new form of colonialism.

6. Indigenous Religions and the New World Religion.
UN policies to maintain and revive (the lies of) indigenous religions at the expense of Christianity.
All religions have been screened on sustainability; the outcome is that mono-theistic religions are not considered sustainable, because they cause too high birth rates. Moreover, Christianity has been accused of being the author of technology and the subsequent pollution of the environment and the extinction of so many species.

It is argued that the original indigenous religions were responsible for long centuries of ecological equilibrium, and that therefore these indigenous religions should at least be preserved, if not promoted, and certainly not be replaced by conversion to un-sustainable religions.
This is maybe the clearest expression of the "worship" of Mother Earth. Truth and Life are defined on the basis of the survival of the planet. The planet is perceived as a living organism, as a holy living entity, as Gaia, Mother Earth; economy, government and even religion are to be subjected to her survival, as the highest value for all mankind. Focusing all the world’s attention on the survival of Mother Earth is the new world religion, the foundation of making sustainability the criterion for all decisions and activities.

Africa has a great "heritage" of indigenous religions. The UN sees it as her responsibility to preserve these values on the continent.
This is nothing but a new form of colonialism.

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